Mohammad Vatankhah Mohammad Vatankhah

TP 7
Elementary level

Description

In this lesson, the students are introduced to some vocabulary in the context of school subjects. This is followed by a simple functional language to help the students to express whether they were good or not good at the each of the subjects at school. A freer speaking follow-up activity

Materials

Abc matching-pieces
Abc writing-sample slide
Abc Discussion questions

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, the students will have been introduced to some vocabulary in the context of school subjects.

Subsidiary Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, the students will have practice with and develop their speaking and writing skills.

Procedure

Lead-in (4-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

-- The teacher sets the context by showing a pile of books used in Turkey's schools so as to brainstorm some ideas about school subjects. -- The teacher has the students work in pairs and discuss what subjects they remember from school. -- The teacher asks for feedback from the students and smoothly moves on to the presentation stage by drawing a word map.

Vocabulary presentation (first part) (5-6 minutes) • To present some vocabulary in the context of school subjects

-- The teacher elicits from the students whatever subjects they remember from school and writes them down on the word map on the board. -- The teacher may have to model the language that they cannot come up with through elicitation.

Controlled Practice for vocabulary use (2-3 minutes) • To have the students practice with the target language to consolidate what they have been introduced to

-- The teacher puts the students in groups of three or four and has them match the names of some subjects with some related examples. -- Once the activity is finished, the teacher asks for feedback.

Vocabulary presentation ( second part ) (8-10 minutes) • To teach some adjectives with prepositions as a framework for using the vocabulary from the previous part

-- The teacher then asks the students whether mathematics is easy or hard for them, and if they can do well in it or not. -- The teacher introduces the students to the following adjectives with prepositions : "to be good at", "to be terrible at", and "to be interested in". -- The teacher has the students have a rather meaningful drill in the circle where they will be provided with different pictures so that they will drill the target language by looking at the picture and producing sentences about whether they were good or bad at different subjects st school.

Writing semi-controlled Practice for vocabulary use (6-7 minutes) • To help students use the target language for a more meaningful communication

-- The teacher has the students work in pairs and write five sentences about their partners by guessing what they were good at, what they were terrible at, and what they were interested in when they were at school. -- Then, the students read out their answers to their partners to check whether their guesses were right or wrong.

"if time" freer speaking practice in the context of "school subjects" (10-12 minutes) • To give students extra speaking chance to practice with their fluency and probably use the target language

-- If time allows, the teacher has the students work in groups of three or four and discuss some questions about what subjects are taught in their country, what other subjects they study, what foreign languages people study in their country, and what are the three important subjects for young people today.

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